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Why 'Johnny College can't read
By JACK POWER
Brieve it or not there is more to read-
Lthan meets the eye. In spite of the
.''•he this understatement seems to be at
h heart of Johnny College's academic
'a^Di". Helen McTaggart, Director of
he 'new Reading Center, said, "Johnny
ows how to read, just as he knows how
"breath, but he stopped improving once
1 mastered the ability."
Beading as a separate subject, isn't
unht aftei the sixth grade," she said.
So" is " any won(^er 'hat Johnny has a
ea
ding problem when 70 or 80 per cent
of college work is silent reading."
"The difference between the able student and his more unfortunate classmate
often isn't the difference in intellectu.-r
capacity," she said, "for there is another
element in reading which is grouped together under the term 'study skills'."
Study skills are those elements in reading which mark the difference between
an ordinary reader and an efficient reader. "And, of course," Dr. McTaggart said,
"college textbooks are not specifically
intended for the ordinary reader.
A student who reads all his assignments, however difficult, at an unvary
ing rate is considered an ordinary
reader.
A student who gets bogged down in details at the sacrifice of important overall
ideas: who concentrates imperfectly; who
vocalizes his words: all of these students
show the signs of the ordinary reader.
"In fact," said Dr. McTaggart, "if it
were feasible I would advocate a new.
physical appearance of textbooks just to
impress the student on the difference between it and other books."
Why can't Johnny read? He is Inefficient. Instead of sitting down to study
in the same way he would work in an
office, he sits down and then spends the
next five minutes looking for his pencil.
Why can't Johnny read? No one has
ever told him how to make an outline of
his lecture. No one has prepared him lo
organize his enormous amount of free
time.
What can Johnny do about ii? The University has opened the Reading Center U
a means for students to help themselves.
The Center isn't a "crash" program but
is designed to help good students improve
themselves. The Reading Center will be
opened to upper division students beginning next week.
san
OL.5I.NO. 12
'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY"
Member of The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 14. 1959
O foqhORn
151
SK 1-31 18, 31 I?
iology prof, hunts
llat- footed flies'
Catholics at Vienna show:
'marksmen without shells'
Dr. Kessel
dons unique
garb for hunt I
in Sierras
By DAVE LINEBARGER
"lat-footed flies" drove a
uversity professor to don: a
lllow hat, a red sweat shirt,
Id to blow a Halloween
i.
i Edward L. Kessel, profes-
»f biology, revamped his
pcimen hunting attire last
lek after he was confronted
Ith a pick-up truck mounted
rifle as he appeared froni
underbrush where he was
Inting platypezidea flies.
Tin- platypezidea season cor-
ksponds with deer and moose
jiniing season in California.
Jne colleague, Dr. Robert T.
professor of biology, was
pnipted. Dr. Kessel said,- to
m him that excited hunters
(y still shoot upon hearing the
fn blast.
Ills. Kessel is also a trained
lomologist and frequently ac-
fipanies Dr. Kessel on field
PROF. KESSEL
caught flat-footed fly
Professor Kessel is a recognized world authority for the
family platypezidea. He has
been invited by the editors of
the University of California
Press to write a monograph on
this particular family in California.
Dr. Kessel recently discovered
five new genera of platypezidea
—Continued on Page 3
rass, offices, annex
ogress as scheduled
By ART LENHARDT
roi.HORN Staff Wrltrr
fho University's "seeded
I?" will not unseat the
[jversity's parking area.
number of parking
will not b" reduced.
Tiff- fifteen to twenty new
HUi| spaces will be added,
''lant Superintendent's of-
l* announced yesterday.
"'een campus, soon to re-
>e the gray asphalt blocks,
"■it the University $2500.
This figure includes the sprinkling system.
student offices
The future home of the FOGHORN, the BSC, the ASUSF,
and th? annual offices is being
built under the north wing of
Phelan Hall. The cost, as released
yesterday by Fr. Thomas Cos-
grave, S.J., Director of Plant
Services, will be $19,200.
A conference room will be included in the new section.
—Continued on Page 3
See editorial, page 2
By WARREN HINCKLE
I 1 Oi.llllKN l..lil..r
A Catholic delegate to the
Soviets ponsored World
Youth Festival has charged
that the "incredible ineffectiveness" of American Catholic students there was due to
Catholic educational policies
that produce "antiCommu-
nists for Communion Breakfasts and not Christians for
the market place."
Bill Eckert, writing in the current issue of "World Campus," -a
journal of international affairs
published by the Maryknoll order, said that the Vienna Festival
was a "microcosm" of empty socio-political conscience of American Catholic collegians.
The ideological field of the
international meeting attended by 17,000 younger-set
liberals and fellow travelers,
was left open to "Red professionals" because "isolationist
elements in the Catholic Press"
influenced American students
against participating, he
charged.
Among the 630 United States
delegates, approximately 35 were
from Catholic colleges. Eckert
found this particularly lamentable. "In view of the number of
uncommitted Asians and Africans involved, there should have
been a much greater U. S. Catholic representation."
"As a bloc and as individuals,
Ivy League graduates were in
Senior prexy
striken
Senior class president and
Special Events Chairman Dick
Gagliasso was stricken with an
appendicitis attack during the
Sunday night movie in Campion
Hall. -
The prexy was admitted later
that evening to St. Mary's Hospital, where he underwent surgery
Monday morning.
His condition indicates that he
wil'. be back on campus shortly.
formed, capable, articulate and
politically acute," !ic said. This
was in sharp contrast to the few
Catholics that participated,
whom he found "in a daze, marksmen without ammunition."
"Some of the most effective
non-Communists in the Amer
ican delegation were decidedly
not Catholic students," he said.
Referring to the "ghetto" of
Catholic exclusivencss, Eckert
charged that Catholic collegians
spend too much time with Other
Catholics whose vision is "a*
nearsighted as their own." This
practice adds to their ineffectual-
ity in national and internation.il
student organizations.
"Catholic students, on the
whole, do not consider it an oh-
ligation to promulgate Catholic
ideas on questions as racial
equality, foreign aid, and intri-
national social justice," he said.
The Catholic "position" — if it
appears ;'t all — usually appears
after the problem is solved.
College jazz group
tops Happy Hour
The student Happy Hour returns to campus Thursday
with the first fall production scheduled for 11 a.m. in the
Green and Gold Room. v■"
Under the direction of Joe DeGregorio, ASUSF vice-
president, the show will feature
ewcomen honors USF tonight
Newcomen Society of
|> America honors USF to-
at their annual Pacific
1 dinner, to be held at the
toont Hotel.
* Society, an affiliate of the
n' English society, was
for Thomas Newcomen,
. n."'ishman who made signi-
I improvements ir. the man-
Ulf> of steam engines.
*ih'm of the Socie,y is t0
'"en inspiration by honor-
se|e<ted technological and
scientific institutions in the
United States and Canada.
The Rev. John F. X. Connolly, SJ., University president will be the guest of honor.
He will be introduced by S.
Clark Beise, President of the
Bank of America National
Trust and Savings Association
in San Francisco.
Father Connolly will begin
his speech with a short history
of USF, and will then alaborate
upon the plans for the future of
USF, both academically and
spiritually.
Copies of the manuscript
will be distributed to 15,000
Newcomen members and a permanent copy will be preserved
ii the Newcomen Library.
USF will be represented at
the dinner by the Rev. William
Monahan, S.J., USF Librarian,
and the Rev. Charles Dulles, S.J.,
who will say grace.
one of the top collegiate jazz
groups on the West Coast and
a combination football, soccer
rally.
Dick Barclay, Santa Clara student, and his quintet will provide
the entertainment. The rhythm
SEC sets
etching show
The Special Events Committee
opened a showing of twenty
master pieces in etching, etched
by a renowned American artist.
yesterday in the Gleason Library
Lecture Room.
The exhibit continues until
Nov. 4.
The selection, a study of colonial and early American history,
is from the collection of retired
Dr. Leon Kelb, M.D. who lent it
to the university.
"This collection of prints all
of which have been done in the
last thirty years is only a small
representation of Dr. Kolbs
varied collection of artistic
-naterial," Dick Magary, SEC
art director said.
Strike delays
Forum tickets
San Francisco Symphony
Forum tickets are presently unavailable because of a strike delaying the Forum from setting
dates for the presentations, Don
Cummings, campus ticket representative, announced yesterday.
No reservations for tickets will
be taken until the strike is settled and tickets go on sale, he
said.
group, two College uf San Male<>
students, a drummer and a base
player and a Stanford piano
player, took first place in tlit*
Monterey Jazz Festival's college
jazz competition.
li.iuM.iv. a saxophonist, and
the rest of the quintet hail
from the Jesuit Mission School.
The rally part of the program,
under .he directioi. of Bernie
DaVitto. head cheerleader, features an introductio.1 of coaches
and players from both the football and soccer teams.
The Song Girls, in full costume
and backed by live music will
make their first official appearance of the year at the Happy
Hour.
Special Events
•
Wednesday — Semeria
Room: Student Legislature meets, 2:15 p.m.
Thursday—Green and Gold
Room: Happy Hour,
1 1 00 a.m.
Friday—Ulrich Field: Football, Gray Fogs vs. Vigilantes, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday — Ulrich Field:
Soccer, .USF vs. San Jose
Mate, II am
•
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Why 'Johnny College can't read
By JACK POWER
Brieve it or not there is more to read-
Lthan meets the eye. In spite of the
.''•he this understatement seems to be at
h heart of Johnny College's academic
'a^Di". Helen McTaggart, Director of
he 'new Reading Center, said, "Johnny
ows how to read, just as he knows how
"breath, but he stopped improving once
1 mastered the ability."
Beading as a separate subject, isn't
unht aftei the sixth grade," she said.
So" is " any won(^er 'hat Johnny has a
ea
ding problem when 70 or 80 per cent
of college work is silent reading."
"The difference between the able student and his more unfortunate classmate
often isn't the difference in intellectu.-r
capacity," she said, "for there is another
element in reading which is grouped together under the term 'study skills'."
Study skills are those elements in reading which mark the difference between
an ordinary reader and an efficient reader. "And, of course," Dr. McTaggart said,
"college textbooks are not specifically
intended for the ordinary reader.
A student who reads all his assignments, however difficult, at an unvary
ing rate is considered an ordinary
reader.
A student who gets bogged down in details at the sacrifice of important overall
ideas: who concentrates imperfectly; who
vocalizes his words: all of these students
show the signs of the ordinary reader.
"In fact," said Dr. McTaggart, "if it
were feasible I would advocate a new.
physical appearance of textbooks just to
impress the student on the difference between it and other books."
Why can't Johnny read? He is Inefficient. Instead of sitting down to study
in the same way he would work in an
office, he sits down and then spends the
next five minutes looking for his pencil.
Why can't Johnny read? No one has
ever told him how to make an outline of
his lecture. No one has prepared him lo
organize his enormous amount of free
time.
What can Johnny do about ii? The University has opened the Reading Center U
a means for students to help themselves.
The Center isn't a "crash" program but
is designed to help good students improve
themselves. The Reading Center will be
opened to upper division students beginning next week.
san
OL.5I.NO. 12
'THE CITY'S FOURTH DAILY"
Member of The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 14. 1959
O foqhORn
151
SK 1-31 18, 31 I?
iology prof, hunts
llat- footed flies'
Catholics at Vienna show:
'marksmen without shells'
Dr. Kessel
dons unique
garb for hunt I
in Sierras
By DAVE LINEBARGER
"lat-footed flies" drove a
uversity professor to don: a
lllow hat, a red sweat shirt,
Id to blow a Halloween
i.
i Edward L. Kessel, profes-
»f biology, revamped his
pcimen hunting attire last
lek after he was confronted
Ith a pick-up truck mounted
rifle as he appeared froni
underbrush where he was
Inting platypezidea flies.
Tin- platypezidea season cor-
ksponds with deer and moose
jiniing season in California.
Jne colleague, Dr. Robert T.
professor of biology, was
pnipted. Dr. Kessel said,- to
m him that excited hunters
(y still shoot upon hearing the
fn blast.
Ills. Kessel is also a trained
lomologist and frequently ac-
fipanies Dr. Kessel on field
PROF. KESSEL
caught flat-footed fly
Professor Kessel is a recognized world authority for the
family platypezidea. He has
been invited by the editors of
the University of California
Press to write a monograph on
this particular family in California.
Dr. Kessel recently discovered
five new genera of platypezidea
—Continued on Page 3
rass, offices, annex
ogress as scheduled
By ART LENHARDT
roi.HORN Staff Wrltrr
fho University's "seeded
I?" will not unseat the
[jversity's parking area.
number of parking
will not b" reduced.
Tiff- fifteen to twenty new
HUi| spaces will be added,
''lant Superintendent's of-
l* announced yesterday.
"'een campus, soon to re-
>e the gray asphalt blocks,
"■it the University $2500.
This figure includes the sprinkling system.
student offices
The future home of the FOGHORN, the BSC, the ASUSF,
and th? annual offices is being
built under the north wing of
Phelan Hall. The cost, as released
yesterday by Fr. Thomas Cos-
grave, S.J., Director of Plant
Services, will be $19,200.
A conference room will be included in the new section.
—Continued on Page 3
See editorial, page 2
By WARREN HINCKLE
I 1 Oi.llllKN l..lil..r
A Catholic delegate to the
Soviets ponsored World
Youth Festival has charged
that the "incredible ineffectiveness" of American Catholic students there was due to
Catholic educational policies
that produce "antiCommu-
nists for Communion Breakfasts and not Christians for
the market place."
Bill Eckert, writing in the current issue of "World Campus," -a
journal of international affairs
published by the Maryknoll order, said that the Vienna Festival
was a "microcosm" of empty socio-political conscience of American Catholic collegians.
The ideological field of the
international meeting attended by 17,000 younger-set
liberals and fellow travelers,
was left open to "Red professionals" because "isolationist
elements in the Catholic Press"
influenced American students
against participating, he
charged.
Among the 630 United States
delegates, approximately 35 were
from Catholic colleges. Eckert
found this particularly lamentable. "In view of the number of
uncommitted Asians and Africans involved, there should have
been a much greater U. S. Catholic representation."
"As a bloc and as individuals,
Ivy League graduates were in
Senior prexy
striken
Senior class president and
Special Events Chairman Dick
Gagliasso was stricken with an
appendicitis attack during the
Sunday night movie in Campion
Hall. -
The prexy was admitted later
that evening to St. Mary's Hospital, where he underwent surgery
Monday morning.
His condition indicates that he
wil'. be back on campus shortly.
formed, capable, articulate and
politically acute," !ic said. This
was in sharp contrast to the few
Catholics that participated,
whom he found "in a daze, marksmen without ammunition."
"Some of the most effective
non-Communists in the Amer
ican delegation were decidedly
not Catholic students," he said.
Referring to the "ghetto" of
Catholic exclusivencss, Eckert
charged that Catholic collegians
spend too much time with Other
Catholics whose vision is "a*
nearsighted as their own." This
practice adds to their ineffectual-
ity in national and internation.il
student organizations.
"Catholic students, on the
whole, do not consider it an oh-
ligation to promulgate Catholic
ideas on questions as racial
equality, foreign aid, and intri-
national social justice," he said.
The Catholic "position" — if it
appears ;'t all — usually appears
after the problem is solved.
College jazz group
tops Happy Hour
The student Happy Hour returns to campus Thursday
with the first fall production scheduled for 11 a.m. in the
Green and Gold Room. v■"
Under the direction of Joe DeGregorio, ASUSF vice-
president, the show will feature
ewcomen honors USF tonight
Newcomen Society of
|> America honors USF to-
at their annual Pacific
1 dinner, to be held at the
toont Hotel.
* Society, an affiliate of the
n' English society, was
for Thomas Newcomen,
. n."'ishman who made signi-
I improvements ir. the man-
Ulf> of steam engines.
*ih'm of the Socie,y is t0
'"en inspiration by honor-
se|e
students, a drummer and a base
player and a Stanford piano
player, took first place in tlit*
Monterey Jazz Festival's college
jazz competition.
li.iuM.iv. a saxophonist, and
the rest of the quintet hail
from the Jesuit Mission School.
The rally part of the program,
under .he directioi. of Bernie
DaVitto. head cheerleader, features an introductio.1 of coaches
and players from both the football and soccer teams.
The Song Girls, in full costume
and backed by live music will
make their first official appearance of the year at the Happy
Hour.
Special Events
•
Wednesday — Semeria
Room: Student Legislature meets, 2:15 p.m.
Thursday—Green and Gold
Room: Happy Hour,
1 1 00 a.m.
Friday—Ulrich Field: Football, Gray Fogs vs. Vigilantes, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday — Ulrich Field:
Soccer, .USF vs. San Jose
Mate, II am
•
brought ta ) >,a ro«rt*«y si
Delmas & Delmas
FINE JEWELERS
■lakers »f your •rhovl ring